The Chronicles of Narnia Based on the Books by C.S. Lewis
by LEWIS, C.S. and Robert SABUDA, paper engineering
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2007. Boards. As new. Matthew ARMSTRONG. [POP-UP BOOK] [MOVEABLE BOOK]. Matthew ARMSTRONG, full-color art. 4to; [7] pop-up pages; glazed color pictorial boards, color pictorial pop-ups; never fully opened; fine, as new. Seven complex pop-up scenes each spanning two pages designed by award winning artist and paper engineer, Robert Sabuda (b. 1965): The Magician's Nephew; The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe; The Horse and His Boy; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn... Read More
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Folding Paper Toys
by LEWIS, Shari and Lillian OPPENHEIMER
New York: Stein and Day, Publishers, 1963. First Edition. Yukio KONDO. [JUVENILE] [ACTIVITY BOOK]. Yukio KONDO, illustrations. Ray BUCKNER, photography. David MILLER and Abe SIMON, designers. First edition. 4to; 93pp; quarter bound mustard colored linen over board, navy stamped lettering and vignettes of paper toys; b&w photographic illustrated eps; illustrated with line drawings and photographic illustrations throughout; binding tight, appears unread; bottom edge of boards has shelf scuffing and chipping; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with a photo... Read More
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It's Perfectly True and Other Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, Translated from the DAnish by Paul Leyssac
by LEYSSAC, Paul; [Sir] Hugh WALPOLE, forward
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938. Richard BENNETT. Dust jacket title: It's Perfectly True and Other Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, A New Translation, with a Foreword by Hugh Walpole Richard BENNETT, illustrator. Later printing. Small 4to; x, 305pp; mint green buckram over the board, black lettering on front and spine, small vignette of birds and a cage on front; color pictorial endpapers; untrimmed foreedge; 29 illustrated plates, small illustrations in text; light rub to bottom edges;... Read More
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Boston School Kitchen Text-Book. Lessons in Cooking for the Use of Classes in Public and Industrial Schools
by LINCOLN, Mrs. D.A.
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887. Cloth. Very good +. [COOKERY] [JUVENILE] [HOME ARTS]. First edition. 12mo; 237pp + [5], 16 [1]pp publisher's ads; tan pictorial boards, front printed in sepia featuring a girl dressed in an apron holding a cake on the front, brown cloth shelf back; gray endpapers, ownership in neat ink on ffep; light wear to boards, scuffing to corners, a few areas browned where clippings were laid in; binding tight; very good plus. A girls' instructional... Read More
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The Steep Ascent
by LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944. Later printing. Boards. Near fine/very good. 8vo; 120pp; navy cloth boards, title, author and publisher stamped in white on spine; " A Wartime Book"; bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown; blue stained top edge, untrimmed fore-edge; light foxing to fore-edge; unclipped dust jacket with "Buy War Bonds"on rear flap; light chipping to dj edges, a few small closed tears, age toning to dj; near fine in a very good dj. A fictional... Read More
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The Wonderful Chirrionera and Other Tales from Mexican Folklore
by LINDSEY, David L., editor
Austin, Texas: Heidelberg Publishers, 1974. Faux Leather. Very good +/Fine. Barbara Mathews BROMHALL. 4to; [32pp]; brown textured faux-leather, gilt-stamped spine; orange endpapers; wood-cut illustrations reproduced and printed in black and orange; front joint cracked but binding holding; unclipped orange pictorial dust jacket printed in black and red; very good plus in fine dj. Traditional Mexican folktales retold.
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Nova Scotia, Cape Breton and Prince Edwards Island, Canada Atlantic and Plant Steamship Line, Halifax Service, Charlottetown Service
by [CANADA ATLANTIC AND PLANT STEAMSHIP LINE]
[New York]: Canada Atlantic and Plant Steamship LIne, 1910. [EPHEMERA] [TRAVEL] [TOURIST ADVERTISING BROCHURE]. The Matthews-Northrup Co., Complete-Art Printing Works, Buffalo, N.Y. Map: Routes of Canada Atlantic & Plant Steamship Line Between New England and Maritime Provinces, Buffalo, N.Y.: The Matthews-Northrup Co., No date ' Map: Map of the Plant System of Railway, Steamer and Steamship Lines and Connections, Buffalo, N.Y.: The Matthews-Northrup Co., No date Map: Routes of Canada Atlantic & Plant Steamship Line in the Maritime... Read More
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Lavender's Blue, A Book of Nursery Rhymes
by LINES. KATHLEEN, editor
Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2004. Harold JONES. [JUVENILE] [POETRY]. Harold JONES, illustrator. Second printing of this re-issued 2004 50th anniversary edition. Small 4to; 180pp; quarter bound in white cloth with color pictorial boards; color pictorial endpapers; reproduction pictorial title page from 1954; color and b&w illustrations throughout text; unclipped color pictorial dj, small smudge on rear; fine in fine dj. Many Mother Goose and other familiar childhood rhymes are beautifully illustrated.
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Pictures and Stories for the Young; or Pleasing Tales, in Poetry and Prose: Embellished with Numerous Engravings; Babcock's Moral, Instructive and Amusing Toy Books. Pictures and Stories for the Young: or Pleasing Tales in Poetry and Prose, New Haven: Published by S. Babcock
by [No Author listed]
New Haven: Printed and Published by S. Babcock, 1840. String-tied Cloth over Board. Very good. 24mo (5 ¾" x 3 ¾"); 24pp; blue wrapper illustrated with small vignettes of children involved in various games of play and sports, rear wrapper lists publisher's "New And Beautiful Toy and Juvenile Books;" string binding; vignette on title page; 3pp wood engraved illustrations; light hand soiling, 1" split at foot of spine fold, small child to head of fold, a few pages... Read More
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The Child's Commandment, and the Child's Promise
by [No author listed]
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, No. 146 Chestnut Street, 1839. Cloth. Very good. 32mo (4 ½" x 3 ¼"); 64pp; brown ribbed cloth over board, blind stamped borders and ornaments, gilt stamped cherub with a titled banner, decorated front and rear; tan endpapers; ink ownership with inscription on front flyleaf dated 1841; engraved frontispiece; light shelf wear to boards, light scattered foxing and light soiling to some leaves; very good. A Biblical exhortation of the verse found in Exodus... Read More
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Bible Stories and Pictures from the Old and New Testaments; Bible Stories and Pictures
by [No author listed]
New Haven: S. Babcock, No date. Wraps. Very good +. 48mo (3 11/16" x 2 ¼"); 16pp; stiff yellow wrapper, decorative borders and pictorial vignette titled "Lazarus raised to life." on front, publisher's ad for Toy Books on rear; pictorial vignette titled "The crucifixion of Christ." on title page; 7 wood engraved illustrations; very light foxing; very good plus. Seven Biblical stories, three from the Old and four from the New Testament, each with a small illustration: Moses... Read More
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The Goat and Other Stories, Natural History Series, Printed in Oil Colors
by [No author listed]
New York: McLoughlin Bros. & Co, Publishers, 1881. String-tied Cloth over Board. Very good +. 12mo; 8pp; yellow pictorial wrapper printed in red, green, and black; publisher's ads for "Beautiful Picture Books for the Young" including "Half Hours with the Bible, Mrs. Hale's Library. And Pleasure Books." on rear wrapper; string binding; 3 chromolithographed plates; 3 illustrated vignettes in text; 2"split to foot folded spine, light hand soiling; very good plus. Zoological introduction of the goat and sheep... Read More
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[HISTORICAL TEXTILE] In Memoriam The Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone
by None listed
No place listed [England]: No maker listed, 1898. Ephemera no binding. Very good +. [HISTORICAL TEXTILE]. 21 ½" x 23"; [silk and cotton] woven handkerchief with machine sewn hem; printed in black on white fabric, 4 portraits: central portrait of William Ewart Gladstone above which is his wife, "Mrs. Gladstone", to the bottom left, "Father, Sir John Gladstone", and to the bottom right, "Mother, Lady Gladstone"; his accomplishments listed under his portrait and a poem by Hemans under... Read More
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County Map of New England and the Provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, Atlas of the United States; Atlas of the United States
by [LLOYD, H.H.]
No place listed [Chicago]: Warner and Beers, 1875. Near fine. From H.H. Lloyd and Co.'s, 14 1/8" x 17 1/8" within the neat line, left and right margins trimmed; hand-colored; railroad tracks marked but not identified; near fine.
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Needlework Notes, Dated from Sept. 4, 1918 through Nov. 11, 1920
by LOCK, A.
No place noted: Manuscript, 1920. Boards. Very good. [MANUSCRIPT] [NEEDLEWORK] [HOME ARTS]. Octavo (8vo); 97 leaves; stiff wrapper with handmade dust jacket of green stiff paper, hand-lettered title and author to front; bookseller stamp to front pastedown, partially covered by handmade dust jacket; old cloth tape reinforces front hinge; blue lined paper, marbled edges, hand-ruled red lines; inscriptions in blue, red, green, and black ink; foliated with page numerals written in ink recto upper right corner; most text... Read More
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Old Orchard, Maine. Pen and Pencil Sketches
by LOCKE, J.S.
Boston: Graves, Locke & Co., Publishers, 1879. Wraps. Very good. [TRAVEL] [SOUVENIR] [EPHEMERA]. Boston Stereotype Foundry, No. 10 Spring Lane, printers. Cover title: Old Orchard Maine Map: Plan of Ferry Beach Park, Cottage Lots, Ferry Beach, Saco, Maine, 2 pp Fold-out illustrated bird's-eye-view map with vignettes: Balloon View of Old Orchard, Me., along with On the Beach at Low Tide, and 11 vignettes of guest houses and one of the Rustic Observatory at Ferry Beach Park. ... Read More
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Bird Hunting Through Wild Europe, with 124 Illustrations, from Photographs by the Author
by LODGE, R.B. [Reginald Badham]
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1909. Reginald Badham LODGE. [TRAVEL] [ORNITHOLOGY] [PHOTOGRAPHY]. First American edition. 8vo; 333, [1]pp; green pictorial cloth over board, gilt-stamped lettering, illustration of a man with a gun carrying a bird over his shoulder on the front; gilt-lettering and vignette of a camera on a tripod on the spine; top edge gilt; pale green eps, inscription "Christmas 1909" on ffep; photographic illustrated fp + 94 plates with 124 illustrations; lightly scuffed edges, some foxing;... Read More
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Doctor Dolittle's Return
by LOFTING, Hugh
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co, 1933. Cloth. Near fine. Hugh LOFTING. [FICTION]. Hugh LOFTING, illustrator. First edition. 8vo; [vi] vii-viii [iv], [1] 2-273pp; orange ribbed cloth over board, color pictorial onlaid on front, decoration in green and lavender to front, green lettering on spine; green and black pictorial endpapers with author/artist name; color frontispiece with tissue guard, b&w pictorial title page; 14 b&w full-page illustrations by the author; lightly cocked forward, lacking its dust jacket; near fine.... Read More
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The Song of Hiawatha, with Illustrations
by LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth
New York and Boston: H.M. Caldwell Company, 1914. Cloth. Very good. 12mo; ii, 301pp; gilt-stamped green cloth over board, portrait of a native American to the front in a gilt badge; ownerships to front endpapers including a book plate; frontispiece illustration of Longfellow, title page in two colors within a floral border; 20 additional full-page half-tone illustrations; light soiling to boards with some loss of gilt, light age-toning of paper, a few finger smudges; very good. First published... Read More
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The Hudson, From the Wilderness to the Sea; Illustrated by Three Hundred and Six Engravings on Wood, from Drawings by the Author, and a Frontispiece on Steel
by LOSSING, Benson J.
New York: Virtue and Yorston, 1866. Leather bound. Very good +. [TRAVEL] [ILLUSTRATED]. Virtue and Co., City Road, London, printers. 8vo; vii [i], [1] 2-464pp; red goat, gilt-stamped decorative fillets with corner ornaments, 5 gilt decorated spine compartments and gilt lettering; all edges gilt; gilt dentelles; fp + illustrations in text; historiated letters at chapter start; printer's tailpiece ornaments; edge scuffing, front hinge starting but tight, age-toned and foxing of eps, fly leaves, fp and title page, clean... Read More
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A Peep at Old Asia, with 24 Engravings.; Merrill's Pictorial Gallery, A Peep at Old Asia. By Mrs. Lovechild
by [LOVECHILD, Mrs.]
Concord, N.H.: Rufus Merrill, Opposite Gass' American House, 1847. Wraps. Very good. 16mo (6 7/8" x 5 1/8"); 24pp; stiff pale green wrapper, front printed with title in a vignette picturing a girl reading a book, a boy with a hoop, and a globe; publisher's ad for "School, Classical, and Miscellaneous Books" on rear wrapper; wood engraved illustrations every page; light hand soiling, wrinkling, 1" split at foot of wrapper fold; very good. An introductory social or anthropology... Read More
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Teach Me Handwriting
by LOWE, Janet A.
New York: Hart Book Company, Inc, 1955. Boards. Near fine/very good +. [ACTIVITY BOOK] [WOMAN AUTHOR]. Cover title: Teach Me Handwriting, For Boys and Girls from 8-13 8vo; [125]pp; colored pictorial boards, the front board lettering is in yellow on a green background, two children sit and practicing writing; endpapers feature red horizontal lines and the alphabet written in cursive; color pictorial title page in red and black; small scuffs to corners; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with... Read More
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Peter and Polly in Autumn
by LUCIA, Rose
New York: American Book Company, 1918. [JUVENILE] [ILLUSTRATED]. 12mo (7 ½" x 5 ¼"); 176pp; glazed tan cloth over board, lettering in dark brown, vignette of two children, a dog and a kitten on the front; gift inscription dated "Christmas 1925" on ffep; fp, jack-o-lantern vignette on title page; half-tone and tinted half-tone illustrations throughout text; near fine. One of the charming, easy-to-read children's books in the Peter and Polly series. Illustrated throughout highlighting the dress and activities of... Read More
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Peter and Polly in Spring
by LUCIA, Rose. Principal of the Primary School, Montpelier, Vermont
New York: American Book Company, 1915. [JUVENILE] [ILLUSTRATED]. 12mo (7 ½" x 5 ¼"); 176pp; glazed tan cloth over board, lettering in black, vignette of two children with a dog on the front; ownership dated "Christmas 1926" on ffep; fp, bird vignette on title page; half-tone and tinted half-tone illustrations throughout text; some speckled color loss to boards and light soiling, very good plus. One of the charming, easy-to-read children's books in the Peter and Polly series. Illustrated throughout... Read More
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A Camping Cookbook; Cover title: A Camping Cookbook of savory, easy-to-prepare meals. A Collection of Carefully Selected Recipes Designed to Make Your Camping Vacation an Experience to Remember
by MACARTHUR, Margaret Janet
Norton, Massachusetts: Margaret J. MacArthur, 1964. Staplebound. Very good +. 8vo; vi, 109pp; color pictorial on cream colored stiff wrapper; two staple binding; binding tight; light soiling to wrapper; very good plus. Located in 2 WorldCat libraries. Blurb on title page, "Completely different with suggested menus, hints, procedures, and easy-to-prepare meals, for on-the-road and campsite cooking. Contains an abundance of practical suggestions and recipes for every camping need." Light soiling to wrapper but appears unread.
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